After a long silence

It is now several weeks since I wrote anything on this blog.  What I write now will only be a brief comment.

Following the emergency operation to remove my gall bladder while in Scotland, period of convalescence that included a Ministers Conference and a week's holiday, I have been doing my best to catch up with various matters.  This has included two quite major aspects of work:

(a)  Preparing for a trustees meeting for Sunrise Ministries (Rural Sunrise) which involves, among other things, merging two sets of accounts into one in an appropriate form for submission to the trustees, the Charity Commission and Companies House.  When combined with regular ministry commitments this can take a couple of weeks;

(b) Preparing for the Congregational Federation's Annual Assembly, held yesterday in Leicester.  While we had a small team to prepare much of the work fell on my shoulders.  The weeks out related to illness combined with the pressure to get the Annual Report for Sunrise Ministries made it harder to organise proper delegation.  We had a marvellous Assembly yesterday with almost 400 people attending.

Consequently there has been much burning of midnight oil, long working days and very short nights.  So here we are on Sunday afternoon, having had a lovely morning meeting at Yelvertoft, and still with papers to prepare for tomorrow's trustees meeting which will be held at Battle, East Sussex meaning at least six hours of driving over the next 24 hours as well!

The words "cat" and "tail" do come to mind but I am honestly trying to be sensible and will take some time out soon.